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#2981        CD 132.2        2        "Unembossed "Paisley."      Light aqua.

  Lot # 2981
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#2981        CD 132.2                    Light aqua.

Embossed only with a small numeral "2" on top of the flat dome.  

Most known examples are a medium shade, this lighter aqua with slight greenish tint is scarcer.

Insulators of this type were probably produced by a glasshouse in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.  A railroad in western Pennsylvania which used CD 132.2 insulators, is known to have had a line of telegraph in operation prior to June, 1871.  An article written at that time states "screw glass insulators " were in use on the line, so in all likelihood, it was the "unembossed Paisleys," indicating they were among the earliest threaded insulators produced in America.

Exceptional, very near mint+ condition.